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September 16th, 2012

If you like your sculptures ordinarily bizarre then the works of Rachel De Joode should really float your boat.With unusual arrangements of otherwise mundane objects, Rachel's vision makes the world look like a very stra...

The always funny and always intellectually demanding Zach Weinersmith plumbs the depths of the human experience in today's issue of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. If you think that Pac-...

A Christmas Story Bunny Suit - $59.95Are you looking for a Halloween costume that will take you all the way through Christmas and probably Easter? You need the A Christmas Story Bunny Suit from the NeatoShop. This...

[http://vimeo.com/47717259] (vimeo link)Dutch artist Diddo created a work called The Cure For Greed, consisting of a gold-plated syringe containing ink collected from U.S. currency. Read the artist's statement and see ph...

<!--gallery(1)-->Skeletons made of light cavort like you and I do -sort of. They do seem to have a lot of fun! The 65 photographs called "Afterlife" are the creations of light sculptor Darius Twin. The rest are pos...

There's a good chance a few of you have a hangover this morning. If your standby Alka-Selzer-and-cheeseburger remedy isn't doing it for you, you'll be happy to know that there are other options. Well, you'll be happy unt...

Healthy Brains for Children, a non-profit organization in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area, wants to reduce the incidence of fetal alchohol syndrome. So it plans to put 100 vending machines in bars to sell pregnancy tests...

Tom and Jerry Plush Slippers - $19.95Life can be a real rat race. The weekend is here and it's time to put the mayhem and destruction of your workweek behind you. Kick off your shoes and and put on your favorite comfy...

The Apollo lunar landings are arguably the greatest achievements in American history. Six times we landed men on the moon and brought them back to Earth. And then, in 1972, we...stopped. We just stopped sending people on...

If you're into food, you're going to want to check out this new show on the YouTube premium channel, Hungry. The show is call Hungry In... (New York) (Austin) (Los Angeles) (San Fran) (etc) and is sort of like the Food N...

Why? Because YOLO. Because Equestria is best seen with the wind whipping through your mane. That is probably why Anime Amy sculpted this custom pony with a working LED headlight and, presumably, thunderous pipes.Link -vi...

From the This Is Probably a Bad Idea files, here is a collection of Fifty Shades of Grey tie-in products that maybe should have been considered more carefully before actually hitting production. From onesies of...

[youtube XiW5SLQX2w8](Video Link) Why didn't these catch on? Oh, the surfboards may have been unwieldy in heavy (road) traffic. But they were clearly effective at attracting the attention of fetching young ladi...

True story: One of my friends was once interviewed by the local news during a Black Friday shopping spree. The caption under her name simply read "Woman," which we laughed about for a few minutes and I never remembered u...

Did you know today is National Play-Doh Day? While most of us without kids might not have any of the clay on hand to celebrate, we certainly can remember the great times we had with it as youngsters and honor the wonderf...

(YouTube Link)FaFa's Playhouse is brought to you by Glove and Boots and the letters P-W, as in Pee Wee Herman!Watch a couple of puppets pay homage to the comedic genius in a suit and bow tie known as Mr. Herman, aka Paul...

So, you got stuck in a 1970s-built bunker with no air conditioning and a smelly roommate? Some college dorms are like that, even to the point of splitting rooms into more rooms to make room for all those incoming freshma...

[http://youtu.be/Kk9L4BkKYXo]They're so cute when they're too small to maul you to death. According to The FW, YouTube user pennywhelan took the footage in her backyard. It's not terribly uncommon — if you live in...

Nice Bass Trophy Head - $29.95Do you have a really nice bass? Show it off this Halloween with the Nice Bass Trophy Head from the NeatoShop. This fabulous polyfoam costume is the story of legends. Warning:*/strong...

First, boil the onions to soften them. Then core them down to one or two layers. Don't go too thin, or you'll later suffer a containment breach. Fill them with the soufflé mix and bake for 30 minutes at about 400&...

Death rays and high tech weapons were popular fixtures in popular fiction of the 20s and 30s, but it turns out they were also on the minds of scientists at the time, too, who strove to recreate some of scifi's most devas...